Bedroom Wall Posters

A cashier asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up. When I was little, and someone asked me that question, I listened to the other kids say things like "doctor," "lawyer," and "astronaut." My response was this:  "I want to be a wild horse!" I am fifty and now, my answer is this:  "I want to be a wild horse, or a hawk, because it would be really cool to be able to fly!" Wish me luck as Charlie (my car) and I navigate the cruel world as a wild horse and hawk, ha. Perhaps a Pegasus? I am drawn to others like this as well. :) Enjoy the poem. Love to you, C.A.

Bedroom Wall Posters

When I was little, I wanted to become
a mustang -- one of the riotous few
imprisoned only by quake, famine,
or storm. Which beast, I wasn't sure --
bay or black, grey or Paint, Palomino
or albino, but never the Appaloosa.
(Each time I spied a spotted coat,
I was again unhinged by shapes,
soon lost in the torturous world
of counting). I could almost hear
the group sound -- pounding hooves
touching earth, any earth, be it cracked,
craving desert or muddy, saturated
marsh. In one shot, they violently
beach-galloped, spattering waves
and sand, wind-swept, scattered
and strange. Yes, their joy was dirty.
He, the stallion, seemed bloodthirsty.
Cartoonlike, half-black and huge,
his eyes rolled back. On the edge
of the lid, he was slightly showing
a wild, white moon sliver. The silvery,
hot, inimitable foam of horse sweat
simmered all over him, and deep down,
I knew that in his time, in between
war and calm, he’d seen hundreds
of humans.

C.A. MacConnell

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